readme.txt

   1 Coccinelle allows programmers to easily write some complex
   2 style-preserving source-to-source transformations on C source code,
   3 like for instance to perform some refactorings.
   4
   5 To install Coccinelle from its source, see the instructions in install.txt.
   6 For more information on Coccinelle, type 'make docs' and see look at the
   7 files in the docs/ directory. You may need to install the texlive-fonts-extra
   8 packages from your distribution to compile some of the LaTeX documentation
   9 files.
  10
  11 Once you have installed Coccinelle (either from the source or from one
  12 of the binary form available on the Coccinelle website), You may have
  13 to setup a few environment variables so that the Coccinelle program
  14 know where to find its configuration files.
  15 For bash do:
  16
  17  source env.sh
  18
  19 For tcsh do:
  20
  21  source env.csh
  22
  23
  24
  25 You can then test coccinelle with:
  26
  27  spatch -sp_file demos/simple.cocci demos/simple.c
  28
  29 If you downloaded the bytecode version of spatch you may first
  30 have to install OCaml (which contains the 'ocamlrun' bytecode interpreter,
  31 the equivalent of 'java', the Java virtual machine, but for OCaml) and then do:
  32
  33  ocamlrun spatch -sp_file demos/simple.cocci demos/simple.c